GHANCHAKKAR ("SO LAZY")

June 28, 2013

Cast: Emraan Haashmi, Vidya Balan, Rajesh Sharma, Namit.

Director: Rajkumar Gupta.

From serial kisser to an actor; that has been a long journey for Emraan Hashmi. Now that he has started getting recognition as an actor, especially after Once upon a time in Mumbaai, seems like he has decided to take it seriously. But the sad part is his choice of films of late which are flop after flop after flop, of which league Ghanchakkar might as well belong, unfortunately.

Ghanchakkar, coming from director Rajkumar Gupta whose previous outing No one killed Jessica was a riveting drama, seems to have taken it’s tagline for the hero “Lazy” very seriously!

Sanju (Emraan Hashmi) is a “consultant for robbers”,if i may put it so, who is married to Neetu (Vidya Balan). He gets affected with retrograde amnesia, after meeting with an accident, just after he helps Pandit (Rajesh Sharma) and Idrees (Namit) rob a bank. Now he does not remember anyone except a few people like his mother, wife etc. To make things worse he does not remember where he hid the money he robbed.

With the scene set for a thriller promising to be filled with confusion and comedy what you end up getting is a lazily written, boring 2 hrs 20 minutes of mostly yawn inducing scenes with little laughter spread between eternity.

It will be surprising if you do not get an eye sore seeing Vidya Balan who looks ultra heavy rather than “ultra modern” as her character likes to think of herself. While her character is intended to look ugly with the supposed fashionable dressing it would have been highly recommendable on the part of the director to have had Vidya Balan lose twenty kilos at the least!

Emraan Hashmi does a really good job as Sanju who is really confused about what is true and what is not, he has truly come of age as an actor. Equally good are Rajesh Sharma and Namit as the frustrated yet fun loving robbers who are desperate to get their share of the loot back.

But as mentioned above the lazily written screenplay takes the sheen off the performances. The only time that you as audience would get engaged is towards the end when things start getting tense a little bit; Amit Trivedi’s “Allah Meherban” serving as the perfect ingredient for the recipe.

I am giving a 2.5/5 for Ghanchakkar. It is a disappointing product from such an envious cast and a talented director.

Rating Scale (Out of 5)

Less than 2                   -           Unwatchable.

2    to 2.25                   -           Below average.

2.5 to 2.75                   -           Average.

       

3    to 3.25                   -           Good.

3.5 to 3.75                   -           Really Good.

4    to 4.25                   -           Great.

4.5 and above               -          Extraordinary.